When you have diabetes, even desserts and fruit juices become health-damaging foods. Anything eaten in excess or that contains refined or concentrated sugars can be of danger. Daily treatments such as insulin shots are there to remind you of the dangers you face. Staying salutary requires daily exercise without exception. It is marvelous to think that with your condition now being so sensitive to what you take into your body that you could perhaps believe that taking illegal, mind and body function altering drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, heroine, and speed would be Anything less than devastating to your health.
Additional Ways in Which Illegal Drugs Damage Diabetics
Food And Dessert
Marijuana, for example, causes an growth in appetite. Eating more sends your blood glucose levels out of control. Eating in the middle of meals causes your blood glucose levels to go out of control. Controlling diabetes requires consistency and habit in your diet, which marijuana destroys.
On the other hand, methamphetamines and cocaine can cause the diabetic to lack appetite. So your normal insulin or other blood glucose lowering rehabilitation kicks in and what do you have? Hypoglycemia is what you have. This can cause you to black out or even die.
What makes the impact even worse is that when you have your mind in an altered state, you are less aware of yourself and less attentive to your needs. So if you do enter a state of hypoglycemia you probably won't even be aware of it. Even if you are aware of it, you may not do Anything about it.
This loss of touch with reality may sound appealing, especially when times are rough, but the damage can be permanent for the diabetic. Even if you don't go hypoglycemic, you might go hyperglycemic when you miss your medications and eat foods you should never eat naturally because you've induced bad judgment. And its not like you go out for your daily exercise after a snort, inhalation, or injection of the illegal drugs.
But setting aside your mental responses to these illegal, mind-altering drugs, they also can have very real impacts on you physically. Your already reduced insulin sensitivity may reach new levels while taking these drugs. So you become physically more prone to hyperglycemia for chemical reasons even before you make things worse for mental reasons.
Diabetes - The Impact Of Illegal Drugs
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